Dodgy books
Oct. 13th, 2005 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofastolatI was just looking to find hints for the identity of "Daisy Meadows," author of an incredibly popular series of fairy books for pink little 7 year-old girls. One site looked promising, so I clicked on it... and the Council's web filter kicked in, and said that the site was blocked, due to a "78 percent chance of erotic and sexual content."
This is even more incongruous than when I was trying to find information on Hastings' Jack-in-the-Green folk festival during a lunch break, and the site was blocked, since it fell into the banned category of "recreation and pornography."
This is even more incongruous than when I was trying to find information on Hastings' Jack-in-the-Green folk festival during a lunch break, and the site was blocked, since it fell into the banned category of "recreation and pornography."
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Date: 2005-10-14 01:05 pm (UTC)I did the same search again at home, and I know why the filter banned it. It's because the website had a section entitled "young adult books". It just sees "adult books" and instantly assumes it's pornography.